What’s Your opinion?

Luther_bendross…. – I do sometimes consider the Monaro, although having to travel on that road at the end of the week (at an earlier time), I’m always aware that it tends to get really busy firstly around Rose Cottage, secondly at the end of the 100k zone near the bridge building past 8am. Might give it a go though and see what happens.

Did they actually take the signs down? I saw on Saturday that there were T2 signs up in the southbound lane near Parliament House, not sure if they weree reinstated ahead of schedule or just never removed.

how did the opening of the Gungahlin Drive Extension have anything to do with closing the Adelaide ave T2 lane in the first place. I fail to see the connection between the two.

The lane used to be a bus lane only until work on the GDE and Glenloch Interchange started. At that point to encourage cars away from the road works the bus lane was changed to a T2/bus lane with the intention it would revert once the construction was finished.

Lets face it, the GDE link is rather tenuous. The issue is that the Gov reversed the decision without consultation and it was a dumb move on their part because it wasn’t broken. If cars with more than one person in can use it alongside the buses – and I travel this road a lot and dont see any problems – then why waste the energy on heralding the change and linking it to something no one really understands or remembers? Just makes people wonder if they haven’t anything better to do all day.

The Tuggers Parkway is becoming the road to avoid in the south at peak time anyway due to the number of accidents that block all the lanes so I suspect, like me, a lot of workday travellers use the other routes. I leave Calwell at about 8.10am, travel through Woden, up Adelaide Ave and am at work in City West by by 8.45am. If the cars using the T2 lane get there slightly quicker, then even better.

how did the opening of the Gungahlin Drive Extension have anything to do with closing the Adelaide ave T2 lane in the first place. I fail to see the connection between the two.

Well derh! I mean deeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhh! They were upgrading the Glenloche interchange as well, which meant passage through that area was disrupted and knew that there would be more traffic on other roads including Adelaide Ave
.So as is usual in a car dominated city like Canberrra the common sense approach was to let some ,motor vehicles drivers who had more than one passenger use the bus lane on Adelaide Ave.
You have had you fun now let the Buses have their lane backhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxmqyF5M_rw

The amount of drivers who used the lane as a means to fast track their trip whilst being the only occupant of the car as well. If the traffic is not heavy there should be no need to use the lane. It is not an overtaking lane either.

how did the opening of the Gungahlin Drive Extension have anything to do with closing the Adelaide ave T2 lane in the first place. I fail to see the connection between the two.

If you are in South Canberra, and looking to drive into the City, you have two options (that’s probably a bit of a generalisation, but the point remains). Either head along the Tuggeranong Parkway, through Glenloch Interchange, and onto Parkes Way, or you drive up Adelaide Avenue.

While the GDE work was happening, Glenloch Interchange was a roadworks site, and would cause slowdowns and traffic congestion back up the Parkway. I think it’s really less about the GDE, and more about the Glenloch part of the work that would have impacted upon traffic on Adelaide Avenue.